tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327821932012-01-22T17:45:03.738-08:00<img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7992/3266/320/SisterSealSmall.jpg" border="0"> <br><br> Mainlining Marmalade. Hitting the Mustard.<br>Sister Wendy's Extra Butter. Anise Milk Chauffeur.SisterRyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09965594512112007871noreply@blogger.comBlogger2751100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32782193.post-17460588422689110932012-01-22T17:41:00.001-08:002012-01-22T17:43:32.120-08:00

Saturday night, Jesse Michael's new band, Passage Walkers, played at Mythos Fine Art, the Berkeley gallery where Jesse and I are in a group show. After the short music set, Josh and I decided to check out the new Polanski film, CARNAGE (2011). What a perfect night, driven, overheated cow punk in a cinematic art setting followed by narrative noir and Jodie Foster's hot-tempered brilliance. Both

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I'm hoping to cure this cold by eating a series of grapefruits and drinking their juices. I almost never use the still-shiny grapefruit spoons I bought a couple of years ago, shortly after moving to Prince Street. Grapefruit spoons always remind me of my late grandmother, Grandma Gert, aka Gerk. She was never one to double dip in the sugar bowl with a wet utensil. She scooped out individual

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My annual write-up has been posted at Hell on Frisco Bay: http://hellonfriscobay.blogspot.com/2012/01/terri-saul-only-has-two-eyes.html

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REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PASTI'm in a group show opening Dec 2nd, with an associated reading & performance on Dec 11th. Some of the work Carol Dorf and I collaborated on will be up. The opening will be December 2, 2011, from 5:30 – 9:00 pmOn Dec 11th at 5:00 pm we'll have a related reading with Autumn Stephens and music composed by Dan Plonsey. Carol Dorf's writing has appeared in Sin Fronteras,

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Tomorrow! I'm in this show, a benefit. Come to the opening tomorrow night at 7pm, at Workspace, 2150 Folsom Street at 17th. The associated events are free, suggested donation $5-20 at door to support Walk SF. Walk San Francisco is San Francisco’s premier pedestrian advocacy organization. Walk SF and its members are making San Francisco a more livable, walkable city and reclaiming our

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My list of rep and revival flicks from 2010 is up here, http://hellonfriscobay.blogspot.com/2011/01/terri-sauls-two-eyes.html It's part of Hell On Frisco Bay's annual compilation: "a survey of SF Bay Area repertory & revival cinemagoing" http://www.hellonfriscobay.blogspot.com/ 

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Yes there are rivers under San Francisco.No we won't be riding inside the sewer. These events are FREE! Join the presenters for a panel discussion and tour preview Wednesday evening September 22 at 7pm. And bring your bicycle to Workspace Saturday September 25 at 2pm for a San Francisco Bicycle Coalition member-led tour of San Francisco's sewer system. Local sewer historians and

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Black Knight, originally uploaded by Sister Rye.My daughter had all four of her limbs chopped off in this Monty Python skit. As a reclining larva she sang "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life." Humor reigns. Find more photos here: Monty Python Class http://www.flickr.com/photos/sisterrye/sets/72157624164860357/

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I'm reading Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne, wherein he examines "navigating the collective neural pathways of some vast global mind" through bicycling. I look forward to his handlebar view of cities such as Istanbul, San Francisco and Sydney. I find both bicycling and walking drive me creatively towards optimism and usefulness. I expect to hear a similar sentiment from Byrne.

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My art is going to be hung concurrent to a series of films being shown. A friend of mine produced three shorts for Streetsblog San Francisco. One of the films is about me, my art, my family, and bicycling. I won't be able to attend the opening, because it's the same night as my daughter's Berkeley Rep performance.But, save the date of March 24th if you want to see the films and the one-night show

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I've been writing elsewhere, mostly magazine articles:Momentum magazine, No. 44, Reality Rides, Shaping the Future of Richmond’s YouthPublic Transportation Feels the Pinch, Terrain Magazine, Winter IssueMomentum magazine, No. 42, East Bay Programs for Children and Teens Address Urban Cycling BarriersAlso, my art was featured in the Portuguese language magazine Go Outside, Issue 49, June 2009, in

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I've been included in Hell on Frisco Bay's wrap up of rep house screenings for 2009. My portion is up here http://bit.ly/TerriTwoEyes. The entire list of postings by "fifteen cinephile compatriots" can be viewed here http://bit.ly/IOHTE09

SisterRyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09965594512112007871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32782193.post-48239909707247687652008-09-22T20:53:00.000-07:002008-09-22T22:21:35.435-07:00

Harakiri is the story of an unemployed homeless samurai who uses the court of the sword fighters' courtyard to tell his gut-wrenching flashback tale to an unprepared jury of well-heeled warriors, shot in wide screen Grandscope with real swords being employed (as well as professional sword handlers) in all the swordplay scenes.From the IMDB synopsis, "We are May 13, 1630, in Edo. Following the

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Spoiler Alert! This post may contain spoilers.I saw this last night at the PFA in Berkeley. I'd heard the theme song many times, but had never seen the film. After thinking about how important the music and sound effects (subtle sound effects, especially during the chess game) were to the overall excitement and rhythms of this 60s chic collage, I found a piece of trivia on IMDB:"After watching a

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The Condemned Man's Guide to One-upping a Cockroach Near an AnthillOne of the most shell-shocked, punishing, and emotionally brutal anti-war films ever made was a favorite of young Marlon Brando's; I can see Brando in Timothy Carey's face.A shot in the farce of corruption; atrocious blunders made in the name of cowardly self-interest; so-called friendly fire; and authoritarianism when it comes to

SisterRyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09965594512112007871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32782193.post-41740826494199630282008-07-18T12:45:00.000-07:002008-07-18T13:35:12.945-07:00

AKA Duo luo tian shi (1995)I saw this for the first time on DVD last night—spectacular. In a sub plot, a mute filmaker learns to speak with his camera. The madcap antics, jerky movements, and silent flirtations are reminiscent of Chaplin or Keaton. There are a number of scenes (not the bloody gun fights) that I don't think I'd ever experience in any other film, or from any other filmmaker: the

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Couperin's Tic Toc Choc, played by pianist Alexandre Tharaud with hip hop dancer Anthony Benichol and actor Boris Ventura Diaz—

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The world is different when you ride a bike... North American artists and designers share their visions of the world of the Bikeosphere, celebrating the symbiosis of urban sustainability, cycling culture and style. Momentum Magazine’s Bikeosphere Art & Fashion Show highlights citycycling as a beautiful and attainable lifestyle choice for North America. July 18, 2008 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm Centre

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I'm looking forward to seeing these upcoming films at the PFA: The Shanghai Gesture, The Pearl, Paths of Glory, The Killing, The Apartment, Goldfinger, La Dolce Vita, for starters. They've got a great summer schedule including The Long View: A Celebration of Wide Screen.Apologies for not blogging lately. This smoky air has left me breathless.

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I've been tagged with a meme. Brian, of Hell on Frisco Bay (my favorite local film blog) has selected me, along with four other bloggers to:1) Pick up the nearest book.2) Open to page 123.3) Locate the fifth sentence.4) Post the next three sentences on your blog and in so doing...5) Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you."Your leaders must know powerful magic.""Yes," said one of the

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This note came to me from America, a fellow Cherokee artist from the Bay Area. Please consider supporting her friend.---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----Please come and support my friend Reid this Sunday!Cheers, A "California Wasn't Good for Us"A benefit reading for Reid Gómezfeaturing Jewelle Gómez, Reid Gómez,Kim Shuck, and L. Frank,

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I'll be showing some work at TAG art gallery in Nashville, this summer. The show will be up from June 7th–28th. It's called Pleased To Meet You, and will feature art by Terri Saul, Alyson Fox, Mary Addison Hackett, Greg Gossel, and Maura Cluthe & Andrew Hem.TAG art Gallery83 Arcade BuildingNashville, TN 37219p: 615.429.7708e: art@tagartgallery.comw: tagartgallery.com

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Tonight is Part I of the Tribute to Peter Bogdanovich Fri-Sun Mar 7-9, 2009@ the Castro Theatre429 Castro StreetSan Francisco, CAAll textual descriptions below are taken from the Castro Theatre7PM: Targets Mr. Bogdanovich’s debut is a brilliant exploitation film that follows a Vietnam vet turned insurance salesman as he goes on a shooting spree atop a Los Angeles oil

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Colossal Youth is showing on Saturday, with Pedro Costa in person. See it! Sat, Mar 1, 20086:30 p.m. Colossal YouthPedro Costa in Person. Widely acclaimed as one of the best films of 2006, this experimental docu-fiction captures life in a Cape Verdean neighborhood of Lisbon. “A work of cinematic art.”—N.Y. Times. Repeated April 12.

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In a still from Smultronstället, the spider sees himself in the mirror, Victor Sjöström the father of Swedish silent cinema and former doughnut salesman, playing an aging, ailing doctor—Professor Isak Borg.Bergman casts his hero using his own Achilles heel, unable to reconcile experience and nostalgia (a filmmakers dilemma). The experiential nature of lying down next to a patch of wild

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The Catbirdseat has been making some crafty CD cover artwork—collaborations between visual artists and musicians.Catbird Records, 2007 In Review

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Don't miss this unexpected masterpiece—Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le papillon)—directed by Julian Schnabel, which screened at the Mill Valley Film Fest, based on the French language novel by Jean-Dominique Bauby. Schnabel concentrates his megalomaniac sensibility by restricting it to the view from behind one man's last bit of self-control, his post-stroke unparalyzed

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It was awfully sweet of Radiohead to offer a download of their new album for whatever you'd like to pay. I'm blissfully enjoying my suite of Radioheadiness for only £ 1.45. I'm also happily blogging from a new computer, our very first Mac an iMac (an early Christmas gift from my immediate family and extended family). This moment's like a Jigsaw Falling into Place.I've always been

SisterRyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09965594512112007871noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32782193.post-29243345096587121682007-09-21T01:04:00.000-07:002007-09-21T01:14:13.361-07:00

Two of my friends are making brilliant work:Mugi and Martin.They both (in very different ways) make painting seem like a lifelong puzzle with a generous and unsolved mystery at the end.

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She's been restored and rescored.I'm heading out to catch a rare screening of a restored nitrate print of Hamlet (Germany, 1920) tomorrow. It's part of the Girls Will Be Boys series, at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley.Shakespeare in Performance says it's "based on Edward P. Vining's eccentric book, The Mystery of Hamlet (Philadelphia, 1881), it features a prince who, though actually a woman,

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Here are two good summaries of upcoming films at the MVFF, October 4th - 14th.One by The Evening Class, and another from Hell on Frisco Bay.I hope to attend at least one Mill Valley Film Festival event -- the Shotakovich scored Battleship Potemkin at the Marin Veteran's Memorial Auditorium. So far, it looks like the cheap seats are still available. Many of the festival's other screenings are

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Miranda July has just been noted in a list of featured media artists that includes Laurie Anderson. That's got to feel good. Congratulations, Miranda. From the NYT newsletter, Urban Eye:FILM, ARTThe Coolest Thing You’ve Ever Seen?By Melena RyzikThur, Aug 30, 07As part the exhibit “Automatic Update,” which Benjamin Genocchio calls a “buoyant survey of media installations,” MoMA presents an evening

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I've been reading everything I can find on Fumiko Hayashi, aka Hayashi Fumiko. In Japanese, you'd say the last name first. The only things I've been able to find in Translation are Floating Clouds, and the poetry from Diary of a Vagabond and I Saw a Pale Horse. I've also started Wandering Heart, and Bad Girls of Japan, to read more about women who were inspired by the Bluestockings and other

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Here's the second of a few short posts about my favorite films of the San Francisco International Film Festival, shown at the Pacific Film Archive in the Spring of 2007The most memorable film of the festival, because it was unlike any other film I've seen was Colossal Youth, the third segment of a collaborative piece of poetry, an improvised documentary/performance film about displaced Cape

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Here's the first of a few short posts about my favorite films of the San Francisco International Film Festival, shown at the Pacific Film Archive.First was Ghosts of Cité Soleil, a documentary about the poorest neighborhood in Haiti, by Asger Leth. The main characters 2Pac and Bily are armed gang leaders, or chimères who develop a close, at times sexual relationship with a somewhat flawed French

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Konichiwa. Genki des ka? I'm going to be visiting Japan, and the artist, Mugi Takei, from April 9th - 24th. This blog will most likely be on hiatus, unless I manage to post from Chiba, Tokyo, Kyoto, Kamakura, or Hakone. Upon my return, I'll write up a review of the Beck show at Tokyo's Nippon Budokan on April 16th. I'll visit the new Mori art museum, for shows on laughter and smiling in Japanese

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Hilarious Bookbinder talks about drift in Terrence Malick's The New World"I just watched The New World this morning and was about to dismiss it when I began to realize how odd a film it is. And then I realized that Terrence Malick is all about drift. That's what The New World is: a love story, historical events, but it's all drifts. These are not character who determine their own actions. And yet

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Over at The CATBIRDSEAT, "It takes a pair of giant, swinging, balls of iron to open your open your album up with a 16-minute long krauter-space jam. Je Suis France did it (whooping the ass off "Hallogallo" by a full 6 minutes). Track 1 from Afrikan Majik:::: Je Suis France - Sufficiently Breakfast :::"From Je Suis France,"Afrikan Majik Official Release Date - Tuesday MAY 29, 2007

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Gallery Lelong exhibits signs of the recent wave of interest in the roots of feminism in art over the last few decades."Role Play: Feminist Art Revisited 1960-1980"Up now in the New York space are works by Marina Abramovic, Helena Almeida, Eleanor Antin, Lynda Benglis, Helen Chadwick, Valie Export, Anna Bella Geiger, Birgit Jürgenssen, Shigeko Kubota, Anna Maria Maiolino, Ana Mendieta, Senga

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Of Antonioni's trilogy, I like L'avventura the least. L'eclisse shines with harsh brilliance. La notte is stunning and wrecked. L'avventura is just a bit too empty.Anna's ghost neither recedes, nor lives on with any veracity. Truth be told, Antonioni reveals the shallow nature of his pool, maybe a little too easily. Perhaps Anna dies behind a scrim, a force of nature, the water spout mimicking

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Warning, this post may contain spoilers.L'eclisseOf the few Antonionis I've seen, I liked this one the best so far. The lengthy, frantic stock exchange sequences, the poetic abstract spaces of waiting, the contrasts between hyper motion and stillness reminded me of the existentialist angst of a film like Woman in the Dunes, if capitalists and art collectors were the ones who controlled the flow

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Bat Segundo Turns 100 with David Lynch.EXCERPT FROM SHOW:Lynch: "Let’s talk about suffering. Like in movies, people die. Well, you say, you don’t have to die to show a death. And there’s all kind of suffering and torment and all these things in a story. And, for me, those things come from ideas. Now when you catch an idea, you see the thing. You hear the thing. You feel and see and hear the mood

SisterRyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09965594512112007871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32782193.post-25378814117338501382007-03-08T13:28:00.000-08:002007-03-08T13:42:18.000-08:00

"collecting dust in bookstores all this time,where no one comes to carry them away,my poems, like exquisite, precious wines,will have their day!" — Marina TsvetaevaRuth Padel's top 10 women poets"In honour of International Women's Day, Ruth Padel, prizewinning poet and former chair of the UK Poetry Society, chooses her favourite poets who happen to be women."

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Two of my favorite film blogs are blurbed in this SF360 article. Congratulations Brian and Girish!"There's a scene well into Stephen Sondheim's Gypsy where the young Gypsy Rose Lee is offered timely advice from three seasoned strippers who cue her that she'll be much more than a mimic if she has a gimmick. With the plethora of blogs now available out on the blogosphere -- each somehow exposing if

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"Sonic Youth’s experimental alter-ego Ciccone Youth—named for Madonna—released a weird and wonderful record called The Whitey Album in 1988. (Many of my fellow SY-loving friends think of this record as a self-indulgent ‘wank job’ but I must admit that it had a serious effect on my young and innocent ears at the time; it was the first ‘experimental’ rock record that I truly, viscerally, connected

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Here's a brief review of a few films I watched this weekend, at the PFA in Berkeley. Spoiler alert! These notes contain a few spoilers.Antonioni's Red DesertThe screen's technicolor was brutally intense, as were the industrial sounds. Where one expected clouds there were towering ships, inches from the lens. When birds should have been singing, tinnital factory whistles blew. Steam vented from

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The New York Times says Mikio Naruse's “When a Woman Ascends the Stairs” (1960), will soon be available on DVD in the United States. None of his other films are in print here, although you can find a few on video in various libraries, and some prints in film archives."Naruse’s characters, like the heroine of “When a Woman [Ascends the Stairs],” are... often individuals resigned to ultimate

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I'm reading Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility. My favorite essay so far is called "Beautility: Good Design Has Utility." Tucker Viermeister defines beautility as, "the convergence of ethics and aesthetics." Products produced with sustainability and aesthetics in mind will tend to be healthier, because thinking about things visually, aesthetically, and holistically requires

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Girish summarizes the New Left Review's article on the history of the world's greatest film journal, Cahiers du Cinema. The actual article isn't available for free; So we're lucky to have Girish's take.

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Here are the candidates for TMN’s 2007 Tournament of Books, "after a few glasses of Argentinean Malbec, we each confessed that we’re attracted to the sexiness of book awards despite the fact that book awards are also arbitrary and stupid."Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieOne Good Turn, Kate AtkinsonArthur and George, Julian BarnesBrookland, Emily BartonEnglish, August, Upamanyu

SisterRyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09965594512112007871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32782193.post-12036863627756229782007-02-23T14:14:00.000-08:002007-02-23T14:44:47.911-08:00

While I was sitting in the fickle sun, having lunch, a man immediately behind me was being interviewed at length by a journalist about his experiences in Kabul, as a relative of some sort of interior minister under Karzai. I couldn't help but sit very still while he told his story to the journalist.He said Karzai is using his underlings, and all of the US forces to get rid of anyone with power

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This'll be a good show, at Café du Nord in San Francisco.Nels Cline with Glenn Kotche Of WilcoMon, 2.269:30 pmDoors: 8:30 pmIn Adv: $12Door: $14Ages: 21+In his jazz days, Nels used to play with bassist Charlie Haden. He currently tours with Wilco. In the 90s he played with Mike Watt, Thurston Moore and Carla Bozulich. He still plays with locals Scott Amandola and Carla Bozulich when he's feeling

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Graphological anarcho futurists stand by. There's a new form of short range laser graffiti tagging for projecting words or images on tall faces in the works. I see it being put to good use for protests and temporal art: non-violent riot porn?One aspect of laser graffiti potentially comforting to corporations: It costs nothing to remove!The allure for protesters, artists, and organizers: It

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February 20th and 21st, "the Balboa Theatre and the Documentary Film Institute at San Francisco State University will present all the short and feature documentaries nominated for the Academy Awards this year. The complete lineup, nine films, will show at the Balboa in a different order, and admission both days is free... You can also watch the Oscar presentation live at the Balboa this Sunday (

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kos: I really, really miss Molly Ivins today.For more on Copernicus' doubters, read Vollmann's, Uncentering the Earth.

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Spike Lee has won the George Polk Award in journalism for his documentary, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, produced after interviewing about 100 residents of New Orleans after the flood. " "Nevins describes Lee's approach as "down-to-earth reportage of how the disaster was treated on a local and federal level. Spike has access to people and information that would result in an

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“We’ve pulled together a list of ten amazing local artists and three djs to rock the dance floor. Come look at art and get your groove on at the Milk Bar on Wednesday March 14th. The party starts at 7pm. There is no cover charge. See you there!”FEATURED ARTISTS: Dan Pask, Phuong Tran, Ani Boursalian, Taiko Fujimura, Lien Gray, Terri Saul, Matthew Leigh, Emily Merrill, Michael Mersereau, and

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The SF Valentine's Day Pillow Fight! in pictures.More here.

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Scott responds to the assumption made by The Elegant Variation (TEV), and addressed by Literary Kicks (LitKicks) that all litbloggers loathe the New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) under Sam Tanenhaus in, Loathing the NYTBR.Scott (Conversational Reading) says:"I don't think there is prevalent loathing of the NYTBR in the litblogosphere. The websites that most commonly and systematically take on

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I found these images of wooden bicycle sculptures on a Fecal Face blog by Count Tracula. They're from the Albuquerque Museum of Art & History.

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ARTThe Artforum diary is underwhelmed by Cat Power at MOMA, and bored by a visit to The Pompidou. To the editors — hire a diarist or two with some sitzfleisch. Closer to home, Jennifer Maerz scoped out Christopher Tallon's weightlifting show, Six Pack, at Steven Wolf Fine Arts, a show I couldn't miss. I'm a sucker for lightweight workouts. At the opening the gallery sitters told me I could have a

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The Contemplative Cinema blogathon has ended at Unspoken Cinema with the posting of a Table of Contents with links to all the discussion topics. The blogathon was cross-pollinated in French over at cahiers du cinema.Here's a very small sampling of topics from the TOC (Table of Contents)DEFINITIONDefining Contemplative Cinema (Bela Tarr) (weepingsam at The Listening Ear)Minimum Profile (

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As if from the sparse apartment of an audio file, Gorilla Vs. Bear has posted a Stone's Throw podcast, Thank You J Dilla. It's about one hour long.[photo by Rafael Rashid, from Behind the Beat, from Gorilla Vs. Bear]

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Update: The confirmed artists for Do Not Park Bicycles! are America Meredith, Dylan Miner, Tania Willard and Terri Saul (AKA Sister Rye). Two other surprise artists may be participating, but we are waiting on their confirmations.Do Not Park Bicycles!May 3 – Jun 29, 2007 at theArt Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba710 Rosser Avenue , Unit 2Brandon, ManitobaCanada

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An anthropology professor has produced a simple Digital Ethnography of Web 2.0 in the form of a video on YouTube.After watching the video, adaptive path blogged about creating an informal lexicon to use when speaking about types of text.When thinking about codes and text: subtext, intratext, intravenous extantides, mashed-up hypertrackers, flickermarbles, googleclimatizers, youmateurs,

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Roman Ennio Morricone has conducted his first U.S. concert, at the UN General Assembly, at the age of 78. He'll receive an honorary Oscar for his scores of film scores on February 25th in LA."Ennio Morricone owned (lock, stock and barrel) the audio backdrop of the American Southwest from his perch in Italy."

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Yoko's new album comes out today. She picked her own collaborators for Yes, I'm a Witch. 1. Witch Shocktronica Intro - Hank Shocklee 2. Kiss Kiss Kiss - Peaches 3. O'Oh - Shitake Monkey 4. Everyman Everywoman - Blow Up 5. Sisters O Sisters - Le Tigre 6. Death Of Samantha - Porcupine Tree 7. Rising - DJ Spooky 8. No One Can See Me Like You Do - The Apples In Stereo 9. Yes, I'm A Witch - The

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Words Without Borders, The Online Magazine for International Literature, has devoted its latest issue to comics, translated from French, Russian, German, and Spanish.

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Laila Lalami, the author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, has written a piece about humor and censorship in Morocco for the New York Times. "The Bush administration has time and again referred to Morocco as a moderate Arab state that deserves to receive millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money to encourage democratic reforms. American officials point to recent elections, changes in family law

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There's another PFA, not the Pacific Film Archive; It's called Poems for All. Here's a sampling of their mini-bound poetry pamphlets. The 24th street irregular press publishes them out of Sacramento. I don't see any entries for 2007 yet. I hope they're still pressing on.

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Buy Eric Gaffney's Birkenstocks; Come to Eric Gaffney's Garage Sale tomorrow in San Francisco's Mission District.kitschy/collectibles/music/drums + MORE!WHERE: HARRISON AT 24TH STREET (MISSION) SFLEFT OF Mission Girls School/across from Gallinita Mkt.WHEN: Saturday, February 3rd, 2007 12:00 Noon to 3:00 PM MOVING! MUST SELL ASAP! items collected from flea markets, garage + tag sales, collections,

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Once the polar ice caps melt, one will be required to strap on a reinforced cloth dildo under one's hip skirt, and specialty gloves to lift it up. The boots will be a necessary but expendable stabilizing factor, a luxury in hard times.In a moneyless economy, brown yarn will do as a unit of power exchange. Bronzing lotion protects the skin from hot gasses.

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MP3: Peaches & Yoko Ono - Kiss Kiss Kiss[via you aint no picasso]

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Take a turn with Bill Sullivan, Situation 2 : The Subway Turnstile Pictures"I became a spy for the obvious."

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After Boston panicked, the guys hired to install guerrilla marketing LED art answered the media's questions. Advised by their lawyer not to discuss their case on camera, they decided to focus their press conference on haircuts of the 70s.Are they — as CBS says — making "a mockery of the situation," or are they reacting with wit to something that would cause most of us to fall into a pit of

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Josh Michels and I will be in this show:Suckers & Biters: Love, Lollipops, and the Exquisite Corpsean art exhibition of collaborative works,opening February 14th,up from Feb 14 - Mar 5, 2007at Ad Hoc, in E. Williamsburg, NYC 49 Bogart St., near the Morgan stop on the L trainAn exhibition catalog will be available at the show, or by request.

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On Thurs, Dec 21st my friend Tako Oda performed his experimental music set in a remote atrium of Julia Morgan’s Chapel of the Chimes, as part of their annual Winter solstice celebration. Even though he was in the midst of recovering from the flu, Tako played with polished gusto in Oakland's "most desired cremation venue."The opening song cycle was written by his favorite composer, Fumio Hayasaka,

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Both Coleen and Ed are praising the Booklist Editor's Choice 2006 lists.These are the titles in my TBR (to be read) pile: 1. Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day. Penguin, $35 (9781594201202).Pynchon is as erudite, inventive, satirical, and trenchant as ever in this many-faceted, globe-circling novel about family, love, exploration, technological advances, metaphysical conundrums, greed, and conquest

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You Ain't No Picasso introduces the new Andrew Bird release."OK. Last time, I promise: 2007 is going to be the best year for music in quite some time. Andrew Bird’s new album, Armchair Apocrypha, is another in a long line of works that establish him as a true master of his craft."

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It's an Interstate of mind. Take the Lost Highway to the Inland Empire... where David Lynch's films are more about the destination than the journey.

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SF Indiefest 2007 Preview, from Life With Movies and Maxxxxx.

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Maud Newton on Jesus Camp, "Becky Fischer, the leader and mastermind of the actual Jesus Camp, believes in indoctrinating kids as early as possible — preferably starting before the age of seven. Palestinian children are ready to blow themselves up for Islam, she says, and American children should be prepared to make equivalent sacrifices."“I can go into a playground of kids that don’t know

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Ed suggests we throw Michiko into the Wasteland. I can't help but agree, although I admit to being wooed more by Champion's hilarious sleep deprivationese than by his analysis of Michiko's lack of understanding on display in her review of the poet Craig Raine's new book, "T.S. Eliot."

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Average shot lengths are usually measured in seconds. Some more contemplative films have average shot lengths that last minutes, as noted in the comments field of Unspoken Cinema's post on average shot length."ASL (Average Shot Length) indicates the average duration of a shot between cuts in a film (total film run time divided by number of shots). It's a data used to compare films from their

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Girish, on Andy Warhol"To begin with, some facts. Warhol bought a 16 mm Bolex camera and started making films in 1963. Almost all his films were made in the five-year period from 1963-1968. As Michael O’Pray has pointed out, these years can be roughly divided into three phases: (1) 1963-64: silent, relatively short B&W films made with the Bolex, like Kiss, Sleep, Eat, Haircut, Blow-Job, and the

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Another publishing funeral is in order. Independent Press Association is going under. The death of the IPA has just put Kitchen Sink Magazine out of business."The IPA was founded in 1996 to support free speech and social justice. Under John Anner’s leadership, it grew rapidly from a scrappy little nonprofit into a multimillion-dollar social venture that provided business services to a membership

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I finished Cormac McCarthy's The Road on a back porch in Chico, in someone else's home, on Martin Luther King, Jr. day, the day before Barack Obama announced his presidential bid. The Road is like a long prose poem leading up to an exercise in relativism. The ending glows like an X-ray of one's own injury, the satisfaction of being able to look deeply at a chemical rendering of pain. I couldn't

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Listen to:1. Busdriver "...loquacious, bookish rappers duetting with British dance-punk bands""Sun Shower" (mp3), via marathonpacks2. The Bees "...collaging together the previously-collaged.""Listening Man" (mp3), "...exquisitely nails the oft-overlooked American R&B influence in 1960s and 70s Jamaican pop music," via marathonpacks3.Karen Dalton, "Katie Cruel", via Loose Strife4. Air, "Buddy

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From the Gathering Tribes Indian Times newsletter,"From November 29 through December 3, 2006, over three hundred Indigenous people and our allies gathered in Window Rock on the Navajo Nation, coming from the four corners of the world: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Indian, Japan, the United States and Vanuatu. We gathered together to look at how the nuclear chain affects all of us

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Here are some sources of rumors and facts about what's going on at PGW.So far, Radio Free PGW includes some speculation, great humor, amazing quotes, and some facts. It seems to be the posting of a mystery publisher.Return of the Reluctant posts links to numerous sources, some factual articles, and some sites speculating falsely.Galleycat is starting to get its facts straight, after a blunder

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Jonathan Rosenbaum reviews Pan's Labyrinth and Children of Men together, saying "In Pan's Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro makes genre work for him. In Children of Men, Alfonso Cuaron lets it get in his way.""Pan's Labyrinth is a fairy tale for grown-ups throughout, even though it maintains a child's simple view of good and evil. It shuttles back and forth between fascist Spain and a child's

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Before opening my email today, two headlines showed up in the news preview screen, one above the other, sending me into a fit of cognitive dissonance:Bush adding 21,500 troops to Iraq forceAndStudy: 744,000 are homeless in U.S.

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Meteor Blades has written a concise post summarizing what is happening to the Guantánamo prisoners, and why we should protest their treatment on January 11th."On a dark, dark day five years ago Thursday the Bush Regime locked up the first 20 hooded, shackled prisoners at Camp X Ray near Guantánamo Bay. Soon, there would be several hundred more. It was a cheeky move set on the shakiest of

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Chromewaves is surprised that such a well reviewed film, Pan's Labyrinth, is only showing on one screen in Toronto. "A fair bit has been made about the violence in the film, and while it's definitely violent - this is not a film for children, not even close - I don't really see the "gore" that some have commented on. If anything, the violence is exceedingly dispassionate. To me, gore implies

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Terri Saul, Holds Loosely the Thunder Tired Award, 22" X 22.5", Ink on Fabriano Hot Press, 2006I'm going to be in a show at The Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba from May 3rd - June 9th. The exhibit is called "Do Not Park Bicycles," the Aboriginal Bike Culture exhibition.Paintings by Terri Saul and other artistsArt Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba710 Rosser Avenue, Unit 2Brandon, ManitobaR7A

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"We are pleased to announce the publication of Daylight Magazine Issue #5. This edition of the magazine explores the role humans play in producing, selling, and distributing a number of 'Global Commodities.' The publication features work from: Adam Broomberg, Oliver Chanarin, Ali Chraibi, Kadir van Lohuizen, Heidi Schumann, Allan Sekula, elin o’Hara slavick, Ian Teh, Heinrich Voelkel, and Michael

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